PensFanInDC wrote:Either way, if I'm a cop and ANYONE is coming up on me and doesn't stop (which maybe he didn't) then your butt is on the ground.

Except that walking up to a police officer is not illegal, and you would have no basis to detain that person, let alone handcuff them or throw them on the ground. That's just more contempt of cop, which is not a crime or a basis for arrest.

Yeah, if that's your policy you aren't going to be a cop for very long.

Student loan debt is a topic du jour. My mom just sent me a bunch of old financial aid-related stuff from my years at Penn State. The bill for my 4th semester (spring 1993) was $2,376. According to Penn State's website, that same cost today is $7,120. And I just learned recently that the individual game price of a student ticket for football is now 4x what I paid for season tickets.

tifosi77 wrote:Student loan debt is a topic du jour. My mom just sent me a bunch of old financial aid-related stuff from my years at Penn State. The bill for my 4th semester (spring 1993) was $2,376. According to Penn State's website, that same cost today is $7,120. And I just learned recently that the individual game price of a student ticket for football is now 4x what I paid for season tickets.

I suddenly feel curmudgeonly.......

Yeah, I saw my loan for 1985 at PSU recently and it was $1000 for a semester.

House insiders say a handful of House Republicans cursed Cruz in the cloakroom on Wednesday, and a leadership source says angry e-mails were exchanged among GOP staffers who consider Cruz to be a charlatan. “Cruz keeps raising conservatives’ hopes, and then, when we give him what he wants, he doesn’t have a plan to follow through,” an aide fumes. “He’s an amateur.” Another aide says, “Nancy Pelosi is more well-liked around here.”

Apparently the same firm/contractor did the background checks on both Ed Snowden and Navy Yard guy. And since the Snowden leaks, they have actually increased their share of government background checks they perform.

Now, I'm not necessarily a believer in the notion that background checks could have sounded alarm bells for these two, but by the same token that's not exactly showering yourself with glory.

Three of the alleged attackers are from the United States, two are from Somalia and there is one each from Canada, Finland, Kenya and the United Kingdom, according to the list.

The FBI is looking into the claim that American citizens were involved the attack, but have not confirmed that.

Similarly, a senior State Department official said that the United States is trying to determine whether any of the alleged attackers are American. But, the official said, authorities are becoming more confident American citizens were involved.

Islamic extremism is a cancer even within our own borders. While we have seen it happen in Britain, it's not totally surprising that terrorists are sprouting from our own hometowns.